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M. B. M. (Mary Bertha McKenzie) Toland
d. 1895
A 19th-century American poet and novelist, she published richly imaginative verse romances while also standing out as a well-known figure in San Francisco society. Her books range from fantasy and love stories to poems shaped by California history and landscape.
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Born Mary Bertha McKenzie, M. B. M. Toland was an American writer and poet of the 19th century who also became a prominent social presence in San Francisco. She published under the name M. B. M. Toland and is remembered for combining literary ambition with a very public role in California cultural life.
Her work includes long narrative poems and romances such as Sir Rae, Stella, Onti Ora, Eudora, \u00c6gle and the Elf, and Legend Laymore. The titles linked to her show a taste for romance, fantasy, and dramatic storytelling, with some works drawing on California settings and themes.
She died in 1895, but her writing still offers a glimpse of a lively literary world in the American West at the end of the 1800s. For listeners interested in forgotten poets, regional history, or Victorian-era imagination, her work has a distinctive charm.